, 1887-02-24

mail iron gate in one of the walls OF
,he gateway is for the entrance and
Exit OF footmen, while wicket gate In
The inner plate gate admits them into
the enclosure. The design is to erect
4 guard house and Office over the gate
way, when there Is money enough TO
pay for II.
THE BUILDINGS
are OF brick and consist OF cell build
ing, a wing and an out building. The
walls OF the main builpings are 22 in
ches thick. The cell building is 34xlOO
feet inside, with walls 26 feet high. A
cement floor and corrugated iron cell
ing. In this room are three tiers OF
cells placed back to back, ID i'll a row,
% in tier and "a in all. Each cell is
8 feet 0 inches wide, 8 feet long and 7
feet high. Each cell has ventilating
shaft, and is arranged for swinging
hammocks for the inmates. Four OF
the cells are dark the others have
grated doors. Each cell door has
small wicket in 1T through which to
pass food etc. Each door and wicket
is secured with heavy paddock.
Each row of cells Is also locked with a
big bolt, which is operated in the cor
rdor and secured by ~ com bination
lock, so that when it is necessary to
open one cell the lever lock must be
opened and then the cell unlocked.
BY this device it is impossible for u
prisoner to get out of his cell even if
he succeeds in removing the paddock
from the cell door. The cells are of
the latest design, are fitted with all the
modern appliances, were made OF first
class material by the Pauly Jail man
ufacturing company, of st. Louis,
Missouri, and placed in position and
operation under the skillful direction
of Il. III. Holcomb. In addition to the
cells the main building has court or
| corridor, separated from the cells by
heavy iron gratings, in which are the
stairways to the upper cells, sinks,
wash stands, etc. The cell room and
court are lighted by heavily grated
windows.
THE WING
is. 30x60 feet, has basement, with
cement floor, in which are the bakers
oven, the kitchen and storerOom. On
the first floor is the dining hall, 30x55
feet, on the second floor the hospital
30x55 feet. Food, etc, is carried to
and from the kitchen by dumb
waiter. The rooms are all heavily bar
ried windows There are two en-
frances to the building one to the cell
room. and one to the dining room,
each being through heavy iron doors
with patent locks. There is also u
heavy iron door from the cell room
into the dining hall. The out build
ing is 1890 and contains Il laundry,
fitted with stationary wash tubs, huge
boiler and furnace, and II hot water
reservoir; a bath room in which there
is cement tank, eight feet wide.
twelve feet long and four feet deep,
fitted for hot and cold water n large
water closet, and storcroom. The
laundry, bath room and water closet
have cement hooLs.
WATER SUPPLY.
The contractors dug well ninety feet
deep, but as it did not furnish water
enough they hauled that fluid to mix
their mortar with. The board con-
tracted with the Walla Walla water
company to supply the penitentiary
with 10000 gallons of water per day,
and the company have purchased and
received the pipe required for extend
ing their water mains, and will, un-
doubtedly, have it laid before the
prison is occupied The water fur
nished will be the same as the COM
pany sells to the citizens Of Walla
Walla. Better water does not run.
THE COST.
has equalled the appropriation but has
not exceeded it. For furnishing the
material and building the stockade
and doing small amount of extra
work, there was paid Knott & Perry
$24 ,420 49, for furnishing material
and erecting all the buildings there
was paid Henderson Il Jones $25 1925
for the cells and gate way there was
paid the Pauly Jail manufacturing COM
pany $25,2lG,75; for plumbing, cngi-
neering, architect, superintendent,
commissioners salaries, etc, there was
paid $4 ,99s 81 total expenditure S7S,-
1880.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The work of construction was per-
formed under the immediate supcrin-
tendance OF &. w. Babcock man
whom the commissioners regard as
being exceptionally fitted for such
work.
The buildings are to be heated with
stoves and lighted with oil.
A range will have to be put up iii
the kitchen, and the buildings furn-
ished before they can he used.-Walla
Walla Union
A strange People.
The Terre del Fuego Indians, the
ugliest mortals that ever breathed, are